Here’s a question that I just fielded on Quora.com (which is a very cool website, btw). When will fossil fuels be depleted? Never. Yes, there is a finite amount of coal, oil, and natural gas beneath the Earth’s surface, and …
Category: Fossil Fuels
The Depletion of Fossil Fuels
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Native Americans and Environmental Activists Won’t Relent on Dakota Access Pipeline
When I tutor young people in history, I normally wind up drawing a time-line to help put things in perspective. In fact, my first rule for teaching (or learning) anything is: If it can be drawn, draw it.
We Need To Give Our Kind and Profuse Thanks To the Oil Industry—and Then Ask It To Leave
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo offers this observation about my post on “Prayer and Oil,” in which I wonder how it’s possible that the staunchest supporters of oil are also the most ardent Christians, given the Lord’s pacifism and compassion for …
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Oilfield Prayer Day
It’s always eluded me how religion and politics got to the position we find them in the U.S. today. In particular, how did it come to be that the most extreme right-wingers on energy, i.e., the fossil fuel zealots, turn out …
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When It Comes to Regulating Fossil Fuel Giants, There Is No Justice
Here’s a tale of a billionaire coal baron who wants to become governor of West Virginia. There’s a problem, though: he owes $15 million in mine safety fines in six states that he’s apparently unwilling to pay. Jim Justice, an …
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We Won’t Be Winning Any Awards from the Petrochemical Industry
Lauren Downs from Global Energy News writes: Hi Craig, I have tried many times to contact you regarding your Nomination in the 2016 Oil & Gas Awards without success. The last thing I want to do is become a nuisance, …
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Holland Keeping the Tulips and Wind Mills But Getting Rid of Coal-Fired Power Plants. Good Choice.
About a month ago I took this online survey of my attitudes and beliefs so that a piece of artificial intelligence could suggest the country best suited to my tastes should I be forced to expatriate due to a Trump …
Update on the Safety of Fracking: It’s Not Good News
Those of us who were around in the 1960s remember the revelation that smoking causes cancer—how it mounted slowly year after year, until it became irrefutable. This gradual increase in the evidence was due to the time required to study …
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From Guest Blogger Anica Oaks: Clean and Green–Four Critical Steps for Moving Away from Fossil Fuels
A wide range of scientific studies have shown that fossil fuel extraction, refining and usage causes severe environmental damage, such as ozone depletion, global warming and ocean pollution. Additionally, many of the byproducts of fossil fuel processing, usage and environmental …
Should We Ban Fracking?
Here’s a wonderful, well-balanced discussion on an extremely important subject: placing a ban on fracking. As the author correctly states, natural gas is often used to offset coal, which, as he explains, represents double the greenhouse gas emissions per BTU …
